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long lasting water-based linen/room spray
How to make a water-based linen/room spray long lasting? Here are my ingredients:
1. distilled water
2. essential/fragrance oil
3. polysorbate 20
4. phenoxyethanolShould I just opt for an alcohol-based spray instead? Or use fractionated coconut oil?
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6 Replies
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When you say “long lasting” what do you mean? Long lasting compared to what? How long do you want the room spray to last?
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That deppends on the oils you use. I’d say that you need to focus on oxidation, and given the water based nature of your formula perhaps a blend of biocides would be more accurate.
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Which Biocides are you thinking about DAS?
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First what is your definition of long lasting?Second the formula you posted has no deodorant activity so add Forestall first (Corda) and test it.
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I would recommend using a combination of ethanol and distilled water as the base. This will allow you to reduce the amount of Polysorbate 20 that you will need, improves quick drying characteristics and depending on the amount of ethanol you use may also be self preserving. I would not use fractionated coconut oil as nobody wants to be spraying oil onto their linen.
You could try adding a fragrance fixative like Glucam P20 (Lubrizol) but your best option is to choose fragrances that are long lasting.
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@Derya I was thinking BHA/BHT for oxidation. I think Phenoxyethanol is boosted with Potassium Sorbate, if parabens and thiazolinones are out of the question.
By the way, won’t it be too foamy?. I use around 20-30% of alcohol to kill the foam (it produces foam anyway if you shake it), and BHT. Lasts for about 1yr, and the oils would oxidize a little bit and get color, the transparency is not affected. I guess you could fix that by adding BHT but since I don’t store for longer than a month I never tried.
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